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Be Aware of Technology-Related Legal Risks Amid COVID-19. Temperature scanning devices, social distancing monitoring apparatus wearable devices, surveillance cameras, and kiosks are only a few of the new systems that have been designed to slow the spread of COVID-19 and provide employers with solutions for dealing with new workplace challenges during the pandemic. Employers are advised to keep in mind that these systems and devices may raise privacy concerns under the ADA. For example, temperature checking technology may store information considered confidential under the ADA. Products may us...

February 18, 2021 Effective January 1, 2021, Colorado employers must take steps to comply with the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (“EPEWA” or the “Act”). This new law prohibits all employers in the State from discriminating against employees on the basis of sex, including gender identity, or sex in combination with another protected status (i.e., disability, race, creed, color, sexual orientation, religion, age, national origin, or ancestry) by paying employees of different sexes differently for substantially similar work. Colorado’s adoption of the EPEWA is just the latest example of...

The federal minimum wage has stood at $7.25 per hour since 2009. “It’s outdated,” said economist Tatiana Bailey, director of the UCCS Economic Forum in the College of Business. “Who lives on that?” Although Bailey thinks an increase in the minimum wage is overdue, she and many business owners think the costs and consequences of a raise would be too great to enact it right now. A minimum wage proposal is part of the federal stimulus package being considered in the U.S. Congress. While the proposal is shining a spotlight on America’s low-wage workers and the busine...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Along with a host of other laws across the country,[1] Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (“Act”) went into effect on January 1, 2021. Among other measures, the Act requires all employers— located anywhere in the United States—with at least one employee in Colorado to (i) provide Colorado-based employees with formal notice of internal opportunities for promotion[2] on the same calendar day the opening occurs, and (ii) disclose salary compensation and employee benefits in job postings for positions that are expected to...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: While state legislatures focused much-needed attention on pandemic-related legislation throughout most of 2020, many continued to alter their employment laws in significant ways, or simply had previously passed laws scheduled to take effect at the start of 2021. Some of the most prominent trends at the state and local level include creating or expanding paid leave benefits, pay equity, and anti-discrimination rules; restricting criminal background checks; and limiting the scope of non-compete laws. Employers should review these deve...